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Fishing talks between Philippines Taiwan may violate one-China policy
The start of fisheries talks between the Philippines and Taiwan might violate the country's one-China policy and Manila should instead craft any future pact with Taipei as a local government of China, an international law expert said. Harry Roque, chairman of the centre for International Law, however, welcomed the decision of the two sides to avoid the use of force in fishing disputes -- a ...
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Taiwan county opens tourism office in Xiamen
Taiwan 's Penghu county has opened a representative office in China's coastal city of Xiamen. At the office's founding ceremony on Sunday, Wang Chien-fa, head of the county, said, "Xiamen's tourism industry has seen fast development, and we hope more people in the mainland will be attracted to visit Penghu with our promotion." Xiamen is a coastal city in ...
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Memorize the old Beijing with painting brush
Fucha Danqing is a post-80s Man minority young man who grows up in traditional Hutong in Beijing. He has shown keen interest in painting since he studied in middle school. The obsession with art has led him on the way of ...
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Chinas Chongqing hit by summer heat wave
A man walks on a street in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, June 17, 2013. The highest temperature in Chongqing reached 39 degrees centigrade here on Monday. (Xinhua/Chen ...
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Temperatures in Shanghai and Yangzhou reach highest
Tourists take photos at the Bund in east China's Shanghai Municipality, June 17, 2013. The highest temperature in Shanghai reached 36 degrees centigrade on Monday. (Xinhua/Liu ...
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Food-safety offenders to receive harsher penalties in China
Shanghai has stepped up its punishment for those found to be endangering food safety by removing ceilings for fines and allowing the death penalty for severe crimes, a high official from Shanghai's top court said on Monday. "The threshold for sending food-safety lawbreakers to prison has been lowered. Stiff penalties both legally and economically will ensure criminals do not dare to ...
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Passengers aboard flight from Hong Kong to New Jersey bound paranoid mans hands feet after poison claims
A battle is brewing between the federal government and the Canadian Automobile Dealers Association over the issue of making fuel economy labels on new vehicles ...
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Hang Seng dips Shanghai edges up
(1 hr 1 min ago) Stocks in Hong Kong opened 0.74 percent lower as investors awaited a Federal Reserve meeting for clues on whether it will soon start to reel in its massive stimulus spending. The benchmark Hang Seng Index fell 156.54 points to 21,069.36 in the first minutes of trade. In Shanghai shares were up slightly in early trading, lifted by overnight gains in US stocks, dealers said. The ...
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Taiwan to ease rules on yuan bond issue this week- FSC sources
TAIPEI, June 18 | Mon Jun 17, 2013 10:59pm EDT TAIPEI, June 18 (Reuters) - Taiwan will ease rules for companies to sell China yuan bonds this week as it aims to compete with Hong Kong's Dim Sum Bond market, sources at the island's financial regulator said on Tuesday. Taiwan will waive the requirement for companies selling yuan bonds to get credit ratings before offering yuan ...
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China foreign investment inflows rise 0.3 in May
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- China received $9.26 billion in foreign direct investment in May, 0.3% higher than in the year-earlier period, according to a Xinhua news report Tuesday citing official data. The inbound investment took the total FDI that China attracted in the first five months of 2013 to $47.6 billion, 1% more than the country received in the same period of 2012. The rise in May FDI ...
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Hong Kong stocks off as China banks property down
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Hong Kong stocks on Tuesday pulled back after a two-day rally amid uncertainty over the pace of the U.S. Federal Reserve's bond purchases, with Chinese property developers dropping after another strong monthly increase in home prices on the mainland. The Hang Seng ...
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China home prices rise further in May
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Chinese housing prices in the nation's largest cities maintained their upward trend in May, according to data out Tuesday from the National Bureau of Statistics. In its survey covering the 70 large and medium-sized urban centers, 65 showed gains for newly built homes during May, while 3 showed declines and 2 were flat. Compared to May 2012, all but one city ...
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Heartland Institute gets called on their shameless revisionism—by the Chinese
The Boulder Glacier retreated 450 m (1,480 ft) from 1987 to 2003. Click for more info on receding glaciers The Heartland Institute is a fossil-fuel front tasked with convincing as many people as possible to ignore their lying eyes. They were originally cooked up in 1984 to downplay the dangers of tobacco use. When last we heard from ...
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Chengguan learn a lesson from peddlers
/enpproperty--> Two urban management officers, or chengguan, who disguised themselves as street vendors in Wuhan over the past month, intended to experience the life of peddlers in order to improve law enforcement in the city, local authorities said on Monday. The urban management bureau of Hongshan district in the capital of Hubei province confirmed on Monday that the two people identified ...
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Sedan becomes ministers car
Foreign Minister Wang Yi has turned to a Hongqi H7 sedan as his official car, which experts said is a sign Chinese officials are setting their sights on national brands. Wang's sedan was put into use on Monday, according to the ministry's official micro blog. The message was forwarded more than 2,500 times in three hours, and was quoted by major Chinese media. The Hongqi H7 sedan, ...
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China Railway to launch door-to-door services in Hainan other provinces
Rail freight volume in China dropped 0.7 per cent on year to 3.9 billion tonnes last year. Photo: EPA The central government plans to reform its railway freight industry to boost efficiency and drive down costs in the fragmented logistics sector. The reforms, which took effect on Saturday, are expected to simplify railway freight procedures and provide customers with better service. The ...
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Investor urges Smithfield Foods to kill Chinese buyout
Smithfield Foods Inc. ’s largest investors would like to chop up America’s biggest pork producer and sell it piece-by-piece, with representatives urging the board of directors to kill a planned $4.7 billion buyout by a Chinese company that they say ';significantly understates'; the company’s value.In a letter Monday ...
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Man Involved in Hong Kong Assault Had Ties to Communist Front Group
A man suspected of beating an elderly man with a chair was ordered into a Hong Kong prison on Monday. Prior to that, he admitted that he was working under the aegis of the Hong Kong Youth Care Association, a front group associated with an extralegal agency run by the Chinese Communist Party. Guan Ziang, 39, was charged for being one of four men to assault a 53-year-old Mr. Chen on June 6, when ...
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Indonesia Chinas Guangxi to expand cooperation in exclusive economic zone
The governments of Indonesia and China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region have planned to widen cooperation in building exclusive economic zones in both countries, an Indonesian minister said here on Monday.The plan was unveiled at a meeting between Peng Qinghua, secretary of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region CPC Committee, and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at the State of ...
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Chinese premier stresses supervision through auditing
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Monday stressed the role of auditing in ensuring the effective use of public funds and facilitating the implementation of macro-control policies.Li made the comments while visiting the National Audit Office (NAO) and holding discussions with its staff.In the face of economic headwinds and slower growth for fiscal revenues, China must strengthen supervision through ...
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Eriksson Coaching in China his biggest challenge
It certainly recalled the memory of Sven-Goran Eriksson's memories from the "good old days" in Italy and England, when he was surrounded by journalists and fans."This will be one of the biggest challenges in my coaching career," Eriksson, who took rein of the Chinese Super League side Guangzhou Fuli 12 days ago, made his debut speech to more than 50 journalists here on ...
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Korean Air Increases Frequency to Canada and China
Korean Air, South Korea’s flagship airline, has announced to increase frequency on its routes to Canada and China. From 20 June, the current five flights a week between Seoul/Incheon and Vancouver will be increased to daily flights, with flights to Toronto also increased to daily from 24 June. The flights between Seoul/Incheon and the Chinese destination Jinan will increase from four ...
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Philippines Taiwan on way to mending relations
The Philippines and Taiwan are on the way to restoring their good relations after Friday's breakthrough fishery meeting aimed at preventing the recurrence of violent confrontations in overlapping waters, Manila's representative to Taipei said Monday. Representatives of the two countries are meeting again in early July to continue negotiating on fishing operations in their overlapping ...
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Im Not a Spy for China Snowden
Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who exposed the U.S. government's top-secret surveillance programs, fought back against his critics on Monday and denied allegations that he was a spy for China. Snowden told an online forum run by Britain's Guardian newspaper that he revealed the programs in part out of disappointment with President Barack Obama, who he ...
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Beijing hukou for Chinas migrant soldiers
The Beijing municipal authority issued a new policy for military conscription from universities in the Chinese capital city, the Beijing News ...
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Massive Beijing Subway expansion plans
The Beijing Subway is one of the biggest, most efficient and most used subways in the world. It is constantly undergoing expansion and upgrades, and yet is unable to keep up with the growth of the capital city. With the recently announced plans for the expansion of the subway by over 60%, the city will certainly be hard-pushed to meet the massive task.
The Beijing Subway is one of the largest in the world. It carries over 5 million people every day, and hundreds of trains run on 228kms of track and service 147 stations. It is a feat of engineering, planning and coordination every single day. It is a network that Beijing commuters should be proud of, it represents the forward-thinking and development of the city. Read more
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